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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The Zope Book (version 2.7, <a
href="http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/ZPT.stx#1-8">http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/ZPT.stx#1-8</a>)
implies that you can’t do “SQL queries” from Zope Page
Templates. If this implication is correct, I (for one) have a problem, as
I’m trying to do all my work with ZPTs (rather than DTML) in order to use
my WYSIWYG HTML editor (DreamWeaver) to design my pages. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The RDB chapter in the Zope book (<a
href="http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/RelationalDatabases.stx#1-10">http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/RelationalDatabases.stx#1-10</a>)
shows a ZPT example that works for getting retrieved data from the database through
ZSQL objects onto web pages. But I haven’t found an example of a
ZPT for an HTML <i><span style='font-style:italic'>form </span></i>that can
take data from the web page into the database.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Could anybody tell me how to do this, or point to a
reference that does? In case it matters, the DBMS I’m using is
MySQL.</span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>-<font size=1
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</span></font></span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Thanks</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Ken Winter</span></font></p>
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